Linda Castillo Books in Order
Linda Castillo is an American crime fiction author and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling creator of the Kate Burkholder police procedural series set in Ohio’s Amish country that has sold over four million copies worldwide and been translated into fourteen languages. In 2024, she became a double Edgar Award winner with the Best Short Story for Hallowed Ground and the G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award for An Evil Heart.
This page lists all Linda Castillo books in order, including the full Kate Burkholder series, plus her earlier romantic suspense series and standalone novels.
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Kate Burkholder Series (Books in Order)
The Kate Burkholder series follows former Amish chief of police Kate Burkholder, who returns to Painters Mill, a small Ohio town where the Amish and English communities have lived together peacefully for generations. Due to her growing up in the Amish community, she has access to a close-knit community with many secrets, some of which include murder, disappearances, and other crimes that are not easy to solve.
Reading Order
- Sworn to Silence, 2009
- Pray for Silence, 2010
- Breaking Silence, 2011
- Gone Missing, 2011
- Long Lost, 2013
- Her Last Breath, 2013
- The Dead Will Tell, 2014
- A Hidden Secret, 2015
- After the Storm, 2015
- Seeds of Deception, 2016
- Among the Wicked, 2016
- Only the Lucky, 2017
- Down a Dark Road, 2017
- In Dark Company, 2018
- A Gathering of Secrets, 2018
- In Plain Sight, 2019
- Shamed, 2019
- The Pact, 2020
- Outsider, 2020
- Fallen, 2021
- Blood Moon, 2022
- The Hidden One, 2022
- Hallowed Ground, 2023
- An Evil Heart, 2023
- Dark Storm Rising, 2024
- The Burning, 2024
- Rage, 2025
Kate Burkholder Short Collections
- Kate Burkholder: Three Novellas, 2016
- A Simple Murder, 2021
- A Dark Path, 2026
High Country Heroes (Books in Order)
The High Country Heroes series is an early Harlequin Intrigue romantic suspense trilogy set around the Colorado Rockies. Each book brings together a hero with a dangerous job and a woman he has to protect or work together with.
Reading Order
- A Hero to Hold, 2001
- Just A Little Bit Dangerous, 2002
- A Cry In The Night, 2002
Operation: Midnight Series (Books in Order)
The Operation: Midnight series is a five-book Harlequin Intrigue romantic suspense series following agents of MIDNIGHT, a fictional covert federal unit. Each book features another protagonist who is either a deep-cover operative, a former bodyguard, or a cowboy, in different missions while trying to protect the women they love.
Reading Order
- Operation: Midnight Tango, 2005
- Operation: Midnight Escape, 2005
- Operation: Midnight Guardian, 2006
- Operation: Midnight Rendezvous, 2006
- Operation: Midnight Cowboy, 2007
Series Contributed To
- Remember the Night, 2000 (Expectantly Yours series)
- Uncharted Waters, 2003 (Family Secrets series)
- The Phoenix Encounter / The Secret Encounter, 2003 (Family Secrets series)
- Operation: Midnight Tango, 2005 (Safe Haven series)
- A Baby Before Dawn / Safe Before Dawn, 2007 (Lights Out series)
Standalone Novels
- Remember the Night, 2000
- Lay Down the Law (also titled Cops and … Lovers?), 2001
- Midnight Run, 2003
- The Shadow Side, 2003
- Fade to Red, 2004
- Dead Reckoning, 2005
- Depth Perception, 2005
- A Whisper in the Dark, 2006
- In the Dead of the Night, 2007
- Overkill, 2007
Short Story Anthologies
Linda Castillo Biography
Linda Castillo is an American crime fiction and romantic suspense author best known for the Kate Burkholder mystery series, set in Ohio’s Amish country. She has published close to 20 Kate Burkholder novels since the debut in 2009.
Official website: lindacastillo.com
Born in 1960 in a small farming community in Western Ohio (which is also the setting for her Kate Burkholder series), Linda Castillo knew from an early age that she was meant to write novels. She wrote her first story at the age of 13.
She began her publishing career writing romance and romantic suspense, first with Harlequin Intrigue with the High Country Heroes trilogy and the Operation: Midnight series, and with standalone novels for Berkley Sensation, including The Perfect Victim (2002), The Shadow Side (2003), Midnight Run (2003), Fade to Red (2004), Depth Perception (2005), and Dead Reckoning (2005). During this period she was a RITA nominee and won the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence and the Holt Medallion.
With Sworn to Silence in 2009, she changed to writing crime fiction with the debut of the Kate Burkholder series, which found an immediate audience and became one of the most consistent police procedural franchises in American crime fiction, appearing regularly on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. The books have sold over four million copies worldwide and been translated into fourteen languages.
At the 2024 Edgar Awards, Linda Castillo won both Best Short Story for Hallowed Ground and the Sue Grafton Memorial Award for An Evil Heart. She lives on a ranch in Texas with her husband, whom she met in 1985. In her spare time, she loves riding horses on her property.
Linda Castillo Adaptations
- Sworn to Silence – adapted into the Lifetime television movie An Amish Murder (2013), starring Neve Campbell as Kate Burkholder
Linda Castillo Awards and Honors
Awards
- Hallowed Ground – Edgar Award for Best Short Story (2024)
- An Evil Heart – The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award (2024)
- Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence and the Holt Medallion
Nominations and Shortlists
- Her Last Breath – ITW / International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel (2014)
- Shamed – Edgar Award (Sue Grafton Memorial Award) (2020)
- Rage – Sue Grafton Memorial Award (2026)
I am so hooked on the Kate Burkholder books! I picked one up by chance at the library. I’m not getting them in order but I don’t care! They are so gripping I have a hard time putting them down!
I await the Kate Burkholder Books. Love them. I told our librarian, “if you ever meet L.C. , tell her to write faster,” jokingly of course. The only problem is, I finish her books in 2 days. I love her.
I love the Kate Burkholder series. Keeps you in suspense the whole time. And I love reading about the Amish
culture. Thank you for writing these books.
i love the series of Kate Burkholder, my first book I bought by accident the hidden one at the time I didn’t know it was a series so now I’m going to go buy the first one and read on from there in order I couldn’t put it down until I finished it. I think she’s becoming one of my favorite authors
I love the Kate B. Series. I am like the others, more, more, more. I am on the last 3 to go I download them from my local library. Right now I am on hold. Everyone here apparently loves them too.
Enjoying the Kate Burkholter series. By chance I bought Shamed not realizing it was a part of a series. Therefore, I have not read the books in the order of chronology. Enjoyed each one except the one where underground tunnels were involved.
I am now aware Of more her books..my question is does Linda do all of the writing herself? It seems like an impossible task. Excellent writer.
Love the KB series!
Totally addicted to Castillo’s riveting Katie Burkholder
Series and my partner and I can hardly wait for the next !!
Beautifully written, each work is unique. We read them until the wee hours of the morning . Hard to read anything else once you are hooked!!!
Love Love The Amish series books. My favorite Author.
This is written to Rose Marie’s question. You mentioned you don’t have a kindle and would like to hear A Hidden Secret. I don’t have a kindle but I have the kindle app on my iPhone. I am able to get the books on my kindle app without having a kindle maybe you could use that. The novellas are a fun addition to her series.